http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/marvell Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:35:22 -0400 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:35:22 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/239/immortality-and-the-poem-comparing-and-contrasting-marvell-and-shakespeare By Brian Richards - The meaning behind both Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” and Shakespeare’s sonnets has been debated since their respective publications. Marvell’s poem and specifically Shakespeare’s sonnets 55 and 60 have undeniably divergent content but nevertheless convey themes relating to life, death, and love. The ideas illustrated through the lines reveal somewhat of a mutual disdain for death, as well as a passion to live and love. The poems emphasize mortality—the approaching doom and death—in a similar way that presents time as a personified villain... Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/239/immortality-and-the-poem-comparing-and-contrasting-marvell-and-shakespeare